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Symbols used to represent functions

I was looking for some standard symbols to represent the Control key and the Alt key, and couldn’t find one until I came across ISO/IEC 9995-7. Because I had much trouble finding a free copy of the document on the ’Net, I have made a table of the symbols and their functions below. I have [...]

Posted 22 June 2009 † Porges § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Cleaning up a set of tags with Awk

Introduction David R. MacIver has recently written this blog post about cleaning up a set of tags. This blog post, on the other hand, is about a nice old Unix tool called ‘awk’. Awk is one of those programs that is often overlooked. It is really a small domain-specific language for processing text. In some [...]

Posted 28 January 2009 † Porges § code § commentary § replies ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

NFO Viewer package for Ubuntu

Update: Please note that nfoview is now in the Ubuntu repositories, so this is no longer necessary. Just a simple package created using checkinstall. For more information on the program, see the NFO Viewer home page. Download: NFO Viewer 1.2 Addendum: I went looking for an old .NFO file to show a screenshot, and Wikipedia [...]

Posted 17 August 2008 † Porges § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,